
NHTSA is mulling a side-underride guard mandate for semi-trailers, but more than a dozen cities now demand companies bidding on contracts use them.
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Fleet managers are continuing to face the day-to-day challenges of staying up to date with regulatory changes and improving driver knowledge and skills, according to a J.J. Keller survey.
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Missouri has joined a coalition of 19 states that are challenging an Environmental Protection Agency decision on California’s Advanced Clean Trucks regulation.
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Is the Biden administration too busy dealing with supply-chain issues and pushing the White House policy agenda on Capitol Hill to spare much attention for trucking regulation?
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An appeals court has ruled in favor of trailer makers, removing trailers from the 2016 greenhouse gas regulations published by the Environmental Protection Agency and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
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President Biden has ordered federal agencies to develop more stringent fuel efficiency, greenhouse gas, and oxides of nitrogen emissions standards for medium- and heavy-duty trucks.
Read More →Some of the top concerns trucking fleets have today — rising insurance costs, “nuclear verdicts,” the driver shortage — could all be addressed through improving a company’s safety culture, says HDT Editor in Chief Deborah Lockridge in her blog.
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FMCSA has issued a temporary hours-of-service exemption that applies to those transporting fuel to 17 states and D.C. in the wake of a cyberattack that caused a shutdown of a major U.S. fuel pipeline.
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In an upcoming webinar, Heavy Duty Trucking will lead a discussion with two top experts on what’s happening in the nation’s capitol that could affect trucking under the new administration and a Congress controlled by Democrats.
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In a widely expected move, the U.S. Department of Labor has proposed to withdraw a rule published in the last days of the Trump administration that changed the definition of independent contractor.
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